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American Missionary Association archives

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Identifier: 001
Scope and Contents This collection is a valuable resource for the study of the abolitionist movement. It includes approximately 350,000 manuscript pieces. The mass of these was written during the period from 1839 to 1882, but several thousand are dated before and after that time. The manuscripts include some of the treasurers’ papers and minutes of Executive Committee meetings, as well as other items such as sermons, statistical reports, drawings, photographs, and essays; however, letters make up the large...
Dates: Created: 1828-1969; Other: Majority of material found in 1839-1882; Other: Date acquired: 08/22/1968

American Missionary Association archives addenda

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 001-1
Scope and Contents The 1969 addendum and later addenda to the American Missionary Association archives are mostly twentieth century in scope, covering two main subject areas. The first is the association's numerous schools. These are considered "field" records, or, the fruits of the Association's missionary work outside of its New York City office. The Addendum is divided into three series: Series 1 covers field-related work, mainly the AMA schools; Series 2 covers projects that were run directly form the New...
Dates: Created: 1849-1991; Other: Date acquired: 03/31/1969

H. Paul Beam-Douglass collection

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Identifier: 037
Content Description Letterbooks, 1907-1908; correspondence, 1906-1918; writings, notes, speeches, reports, programs, photographs, teaching materials, collected materials, and American Missionary Association publications. The items were generated during the period that Harlan Paul Douglass was executive secretary of the A.M.A.This collection supplements the A.M.A. archives and the H. Paul Douglass papers. Photographs and a scrapbook on rural life document the work of the A.M.A. missionaries and...
Dates: Other: 1906-1918

John Allen Buggs Papers

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Identifier: 061
Scope and Contents The papers of John Allen Buggs document his career as an educator and school administrator. The collections consists of 4,000 items or 3.2 linear feet. There are 2,560 pieces of correspondence, 46 multi-page reports, 240 general single-page reports, 25 essays, and approximately 1,000 general items such as financial reports, bulletins, pamphlets, invitations, announcements, photographs, newspaper clippings, contracts, lists, press releases, and biographical sheets.The papers...
Dates: Created: 1939-1964; Other: Date acquired: 12/01/1973

Nellie De Spelder diaries

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Identifier: 575
Content Description This collection consists of approximately 200 photocopied pages from the diaries of Nellie DeSpelder during her tenure as an American Missionary Association (AMA) teacher at Daniel Hand Preparatory School in New Orleans, Louisiana. DeSpelder was a teacher who journeyed from Greenville, Michigan to work in the AMA schools. During her tenure she visited the school at Orange Park and that at King's Mountain. Interesting sidelights are revealed in her brief trips to the nearby Mississippi Gulf...
Dates: Other: 1895-1899

Dodd Family papers

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Identifier: 123
Content Description The Dodd Family papers contain 23 items of correspondence to and from members of the family (1862-1866), 15 sermons (1848-1864), 1 printed extract from a speech by Alexander H. Stephens (1861), 1 abolitionist pamphlet (n.d.), 3 clippings (1863, n.d.), 4 photocopies on 2 sheets including 2 photographs of Helen M. Dodd (1868, n.d.), 1 pass issued by the Office of the Superintendent of Negro Affairs (1864), and 1 oath of loyalty (1863). Most of the correspondence is from Helen Dodd, with one...
Dates: Other: 1848-1868

Esther W. Douglass collection

 Collection
Identifier: 130
Content Description This collection consists of photocopies of materials in the Michigan Historical Collections at the University of Michigan. Esther W. Douglass was a teacher and missionary for the American Missionary Association in Virginia, Georgia, North and South Carolina, and Tennessee for 31 years. Included in the collection are 22 outgoing letters to family members, 32 incoming letters from her family and such persons as Booker T. Washington and Billy Sunday. Also present is the biography written by her...
Dates: Other: 1865-1915

Esther W. Douglass papers

 Collection — Container: small collections
Identifier: 2473
Scope and Contents The papers of Esther W. Douglass contain outgoing correspondence and a bound volume containing her life reminiscences written for a family member. They detail her work as a teacher and missionary with the American Missionary Association from 1865 to 1895 in Virginia, Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina. The correspondence consists of nine letters and fragments of seven additional letters written by Douglass while in Oaks, North Carolina. Most are addressed to...
Dates: Created: 1887-1909; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1984

Harlan Paul Douglass papers

 Collection
Identifier: 131
Content Description The Harlan Paul Douglass papers consists of approximately 400 items, 3 reels of microfilm, and 4 volumes. The papers include correspondence; clippings; biographical data; family histories by Douglass' mother, Maria Greene Douglass, and father, Truman Orville Douglass; photographs; wills; honors and tributes; an appreciation book; writings; and a scrapbook. The items relate to Douglass' school days, his career with the American Missionary Association and his retirement. Included among the...
Dates: Other: 1889-1966

Dunn-Landry Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: 138
Scope and Contents The Dunn-Landry Family Papers encompass 14 linear feet of material covering subject areas of civil rights, African American education, ministerial work, historically black colleges and universities, Louisiana politics and race relations.The collection is arranged into nine series of personal and professional materials. The bulk of the papers are professional in nature with some personal correspondence. The strength of the collection is national and local civic activities, civil rights ...
Dates: Created: 1872-2003; Other: Majority of material found in 1916 -1992; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1984

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